Update: On Twitter, Gruber's wife says "That part [of the BusinessWeek pofile] is total bulls----. Only John and I know our financials. We didn’t comment on them." We trust BusinessWeek's reporting, and really, the point is that the guy is making a lot of money, not to list some exact figure.

Gruber is also getting somewhere with his sourcing and access to Apple. When Apple released the latest version of its operating system, Apple worldwide marketing boss Phil Schiller gave him a one-on-one demonstration at a hotel in New York.